Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century

A collection of essays on the cultural and social aspects of travel writing in the nineteenth century.

An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.

Long popular with a general readership, travel writing has, in the past three decades or so, become firmly established as an object of serious and multi-disciplinary academic inquiry. Few of the scholarly and popular publications that have focused on the nineteenth century have regarded the century as a whole. This broad volume examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans and Australasia.